If, like me, you take fascination in what happens to lived-in places after humanity moves on, and how more recent abandoned buildings gradually become the ancient ruins that future generations will take tours around, then this gallery is a timesink that could knock out an entire morning.

It won’t be the gallery itself will get you – each site, whether it be the sunken ruins of Alexandria or a sharply modernist Taiwanese resort, gets just a few images and a short paragraph – but the further research it entails.

Who wouldn’t want to know more about why these once bustling urban centres and homely villages were abandoned to the elements?